Why Diets Don't Work

You don’t need to be a doctor to realize just how ineffective dieting is if you want successful, sustainable weight loss (ie becoming one of “those people” who never have to worry about their weight again). Most people know from their own personal experience that, the more they diets they go on, the fatter they get as the years go on.   However, here’s the proof . . .

Have you ever wondered why weight loss companies only publish data about weight lost over a short period of time? Not one publishes data such as, “Of the 10 000 people who got to their goal weight in the year 2000, 9 000 of these were still at (or under) this weight five years later”. The reason is because, 98% of the time, diets don’t work in the long term.

“Medicare’s Search for Effective Obesity Treatment: Diets are Not the Answer” (UCLA)

“Weight-loss diets – can you keep it off?” (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)

“Weight Regain Prevention” (Clinical Diabetes Journal)

“Doubts Fail to Deter ‘The Diet Revolution’” (New York Times )

“Caloric Restriction Experience Reprograms Stress and Orexigenic Pathways and Promotes Binge Eating” (The Journal of Neruoscience)

“How to Maintain Lost Weight” (Diabetes Spectrum)

“Dieting as a Precursor to Eating Disorders” (International Eating Disorder Referral Organization)

“Long Term Diet Failure” (Council on Size and Weight Discrimination)